Margot Kidder: 1948-2018 By Krista Stevens Highlight Margot Kidder passed away at her home in Montana on Sunday, May 13th, 2018 at age 69.
Turning Love and Grief into Outsider Art By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How one London man transformed his house into a work of art, and a physical love story to the people he’s lost.
The Man Who Painted the Cover of Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Album Didn’t Get Paid What It’s Worth By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Artists are always getting screwed, even by other artists.
Zadie Smith on the Work and Influences of Deana Lawson By Danielle Jackson Highlight Lawson’s photographs capture the divinity and stateliness of its working-class subjects.
Why Beyoncé Placed HBCU’s at the Center of American Life By Danielle Jackson Commentary The singer’s latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person.
You’ll Dream What We Tell You To Dream and You’ll Like It By Michelle Weber Highlight Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.
A Kendrick Lamar Syllabus By Danielle Jackson Reading List The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.
Tangled in the Infinite War By Michelle Weber Highlight Superheroes they used to stick up for the underdog and punch a lot of Nazis. Now, they fight villains who look a lot like themselves. Who are the baddies now?
The Enduring Legacy of the Willie Lynch Hoax By Matt Giles Commentary Why Kanye referenced a nonexistent slave owner.
It’s Like This and Like That and Like What? By Rebecca Schuman Feature When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.
Listening to the Words of Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos After Hurricane Maria By Danielle Jackson Highlight Largely unknown, Julia de Burgos may have been Puerto Rico’s greatest poet.
Making a Pilgrimage Along Prince’s Purple Trail By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Traveling around Minneapolis, visiting the locations where Prince used to live.
Janelle Monáe’s New Music Teases a Queer, Femme Sensibility By Danielle Jackson Highlight Singer Janelle Monáe’s first full-length album in five years, “Dirty Computer,” takes an explicit look at sexual expression and female identity.
Everyone’s Gotta Make a Living By Michelle Weber Highlight Composer Philip Glass was a plumber, a mover, a taxi driver — and as a child, a clerk in his father’s record store, where he learned a key lesson.
Protecting Your Writing Time In This Weird Time of Ours By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Poet Patricia Lockwood offers ideas on how to keep writing in the unstable, toxic, distracting times we live in.
Junot Diaz on The Legacy of Childhood Trauma By Krista Stevens Highlight Junot Diaz suffered for years after being raped by a trusted adult at age 8.
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean By Natalie Daher Feature On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.
Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine By Anne Thériault Feature Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.
The Writers’ Roundtable: Fiction vs. Nonfiction By Eva Holland Feature A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.
The Death Row Book Club By Aaron Gilbreath Feature When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.
You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent By Rebecca Schuman Feature A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
David Chang’s ‘Ugly Delicious’ Pushes Food TV in the Right Direction By Matt Giles Commentary ‘Ugly Delicious’ is everything that food TV should be, but a failure to address today’s most pressing issues leaves us wanting much, much more.
How to Run a Magazine in the Desert By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Ken Layne designs, edits, and distributes his independent magazine Desert Oracle from tiny Joshua Tree, California.
A Storyteller, Unbecoming By Namrata Poddar Feature On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.
It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.
Bernadette Peters Is Not a Child By Catherine Cusick Highlight Even Bernadette Peters, as fearless and as formidable as ever, has been described for decades as cute and naïve.
Grown-Woman Theology By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
Lying Down in the Dirt: An Interview with Denis Johnson By Janet Steen Feature “I thought I’d never publish these things. I thought it was important for me to hide the fact that I’m not right in the head.”
Trying to Understand YouTube Success By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How a successful YouTube celebrity barely leaves the house.
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